KEY STEPS

Reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries: approaches to stimulate action
– a quick guide to the SBSTA agenda item under the UNFCCC

The negotiations on "Reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries: approaches
to stimulate action" under the UNFCCC are an ongoing process since it was
introduced as an item into the agenda of the Conference of Parties (COP) at its eleventh session
in Montreal in December 2005. Important meetings and events as well as key documents in this
process are shown in their chronological order in the below tables.

FCCC/TP/2009/1 (Technical paper on costs of implementing methodologies and
monitoring systems relating to estimates of emissions from deforestation and forest
degradation, the assessment of carbon stocks and greenhouse gas emissions from changes in
forest cover, and the enhancement of forest carbon stocks)

FCCC/SBSTA/2009/MISC.1,
Add.1 and
Add.2 (Submissions from Parties on issues relating to indigenous people and
local communities for the development and application of methodologies)

FCCC/SBSTA/2007/MISC.14, Add.1,
Add.2
and
Add.3 (Submissions from Parties, views on issues related to further steps
under the Convention related to reducing emissions from deforestation in developing
countries: approaches to stimulate action)